Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will be postponed. Amendment No. 23 Offered by Mr. Thompson of California
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We cannot have meaningful tribal consultations as long as the mining industry has the automatic right to mine wherever they stake a claim.
The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.
to merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement... is going back to a time that got us into this situation.
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